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Why does nobody talk about the 'paste in place' shortcut in Figma?
Last week I was working on a mobile app screen and copied a button to reuse it. When I pasted it normally, it went to the center of my viewport, not where I needed it. I lost about 15 minutes manually repositioning everything. Has anyone else run into this and found a fix?
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lucaslane2mo ago
Figma's paste in place shortcut is Shift-Cmd-V on Mac. Total lifesaver for copying between frames.
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fiona_murray2mo ago
That shortcut is a game changer, @lucaslane. For years I was manually dragging things, getting everything off by a pixel or two. It made copying a button from a header to a footer a total nightmare. My old designs must look like they were put together by someone with shaky hands.
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the_harper9d ago
Wait, is this the same kind of shortcut that works in Illustrator too, @fiona_murray? Because I just spent an HOUR trying to line up icons last week, manually nudging things one arrow key at a time. My coworkers probably thought I was building a mosaic instead of a website.
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